Red Mosquito

My top five:

Atlantic City
Hungry Heart
Glory Days
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Born To Run

In no order, my top 10 today

E Street Shuffle
Backstreets
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Racing In The Streets (Promise version)
Atlantic City
You're Missing
Ain't Good Enough For You
The Promised Land
Into The Fire
What Love Can Do

and I'm sure I've forgotten heaps. Devils and Dust for example.

Eh, why not?

Backstreets
Reason to Believe
The Promise (Piano Version)
Lost in the Flood
Shut Out the Light
Open All Night
Take 'Em As They Come
Incident on 57th Street
Racing in the Street
Long Walk Home

Ummm...OK. Today I'll go with:

Lost in the Flood
Born to Run
One Step Up
E Street Shuffle
Streets of Fire
The River
Atlantic City
Shackled and Drawn
Streets of Philadelphia
Rockaway the Days

Black Cowboys
Brothers Under the Bridge
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
E Street Shuffle
Incident on 57th Street
Racing in the Street
Jackson Cage
Atlantic City
We Are Alive
Downbound Train

No order

Highway Patrolman
Used Cars
Atlantic City
Downbound Train
Thunder Road
Because the Night
Sherry Darling
Point Blank
It's Hard to be a Saint in the City
The Promised Land

Jungleland
Ac
I'm on fire
Born to run
Lost in the flood
Badlands
Prove it all night
Thunder road
10 th Ave freeze out
Waitin on a sunny day

Not a lot of duplicates across these lists. Speaks volumes for his catalogue.

zeb wrote:Not a lot of duplicates across these lists. Speaks volumes for his catalogue.

Yep. He holds himself to a high standard over a lot of material over a long time. Respect.

The Promise is fucking stellar. The amount of quality stuff that came out of those Edge of Town sessions is pretty staggering.

turned2black wrote:The Promise is fucking stellar. The amount of quality stuff that came out of those Edge of Town sessions is pretty staggering.

I was wondering what I was going to throw on after moving my lossless drive to my main PC, 18 Tracks it is.

can remember watching this on a crappy tiny tube tv miles away from home

True story: that picture is not color treated in any way. That is just how things look in Nebraska.

McParadigm wrote:True story: that picture is not color treated in any way. That is just how things look in Nebraska.

Some places? Yes.

There are rumors Bruce gained 40 lbs and grew a huge beard and lived in BFE Nebraska for a few months before recording this.

Only 40 pounds? Rubbish. They would have recognized that he didn't fit in with the locals.

As a newly minted Springsteen fan, I just need to say this guy is really great.

That shimmering bass at the beginning of "Backstreets"...sheesh.

McParadigm wrote:Only 40 pounds? Rubbish. They would have recognized that he didn't fit in with the locals.

oh, man - that so true. Omaha people came in two varieties from my recollection: big and tall types that i'm pretty sure could eat an entire cow in one sitting, ad big and round types, who likely did eat an entire cow in one sitting.

damn, they are large fucking corn fed folks though.

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

The only Springsteen album really worth listening to.

Definitely the best Springsteen album, but there's worthwhile material on every single album (even Human Touch).